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Kresge Foundation

The Kresge Foundation is a $3 billion private, national foundation headquartered in Metropolitan Detroit, in the suburb community of Troy, which works to expand opportunities in America's cities through grant making and investing in arts and culture, education, environment, health, human services, community development and place-based efforts in Detroit. Kresge’s broad fields of interest have become seven narrowly defined programs – Arts and Culture, Community Development, Detroit, Education, Environment, Health, and Human Services. Additional information about Kresge Foundation can be found online at www.kresge.org.

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Degrees When Due, led by the Institute for Higher Education Policy, is a national three-year initiative to help states and postsecondary institutions close attainment gaps and improve degree completion, especially for students with some college, but no degree. Participating institutions in eight states will join the inaugural Degrees When Due, cohort and learn how to implement strategies aimed at identifying degree-eligible students and successfully reengaging stopped-out students.

Sixty-one participating colleges (in nine states) joined forces to locate qualified students who never received an associate's degree and to award those degrees retroactively. This effort also identified former students who were no more than nine to 12 credits short of an associate’s degree and sought to find and bring them back to college to complete the degree. To date, more than 4,500 students have received degrees retroactively, as a result of this effort.